Did you understand that your printer ink cartridges really include chips inside them? These cartridges do extra than simply maintain your printer ink, and the chips inside them are used for authentication functions to assist confirm they’re real parts, and in addition used to assist the printer understand how a lot ink is left.

Unfortunately, because of the ongoing world chip scarcity, it seems that this has now affected printer ink cartridges as nicely. In an announcement on Canon Australia’s website, the corporate has revealed that because of the scarcity, they’ll now be manufacturing chip-less toner cartridges.

According to Canon’s announcement, “To ensure our customers don’t miss a print, Canon has innovated around the chip shortage to ensure that we can still supply the toner cartridges. Canon has started to manufacture chip-less toner cartridges. While there will be some inevitable, yet minor, changes to our customers’ experience, you will still be able to print as normal.”

Canon states that it will solely be a short lived answer till chip manufacturing can get again on observe. However, within the meantime to cope with error messages that customers will encounter once they attempt to use these chip-less cartridges, Canon has posted a information on its web site that reveals customers easy methods to work round it for the time-being.

Filed in Gadgets. Read extra about Canon and Printers. Source: neowin.net